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I 2 Sheets -Sheet 1. W. H. GALLUP 8a L. CHURCHILL.

' (No Model.)

SHIRT WAIST.

Patented Dec. 4,1883.

Witnesses:

'Inve ntofs U ITE reins TO THE GALLUP NOVELTY To all whom it may concern.- I

Be it known that we, WILLIAM H. GALLUP and LEE CHURCHILL, of the city of Troy, county of Rensselaer, and State of New York, 5. have jointly invented a new and useful Im provement in Shirt-Waists, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to certain improvements in the method of making shirt-waists a kind of garments exteriorly worn by children in connection with skirts or pantaloons,which at the waistbands of the latter are suspended from and attached to the waist of the former when worn. As this class of garments have I 5 heretoforebeenmade,theweight of the attached pantaloons or skirt thus connected with them was borne and sustained on the shoulders of the wearer, and as a result the vertical tension imposed upon the shirt-waist between the shoulders, where the weight of the attached lower garments was sustained and where the latter were connected, drew the shirt-waist close in against the body of the wearer, taking from it its plaited fullness and laundered con- 2 5 tour, giving a gaunt appearance to the child. To remedy these prominent faults in this class of garments is the object and purpose of our invention, and this we accomplish, as will be hereinafter detailed, by taking the weight of the attached and suspended lower'garment from off the shoulders and by transferring it to the hips of the wearer.

Accompanying this specification and forming a part of it there are two plates of drawings containing three figures illustrating our invention, in all of which the same designation of parts by letter-reference is used.

Figure 1 shows a shirt-waist containing our invention,with the lower part of the garment 40 at the front being represented as open to show the position of the belt at the front. Fig. 2 illustrates the same garment that is shown at Fig. 1 with the front opening closed. Fig. 3 shows a horizontal section taken on the line so a. of Fig. 1, with the thickness of the parts somewhat exaggerated to better represent their relative position.

The several parts of the shirt-waist thus illustrated are designated by letter-reference and their function explained as follows: The

SHIRT- WVILLIAll/LH. GALLUP AND LEE CHURCHILL OF TROY, NEW YORK, ASSIGNORS WORKS, OF SAME PLACE.

WAIST.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No; 289,639, dated December 4, 1883,

Application filed June 28,1883. (No model.)

letter A indicates the body of the garment, and 0 its collar surrounding its neck-opening O. The shirt-waist is made to open at the front from the collar to the waist, and to be secured, when closed, by means of buttons on the underlap F and button-holes in the overlap F in the usual manner.

The letter B indicates a belt provided with a buckle, T, to connect its front ends, and this belt is eXteriorly attached to the back of the garment, as indicated at d d, with the front ends arranged to pass through the vertical slits I I, one of which is arranged at each side of the front opening of the garment for the inward passage of one end of the belt. Between where attached to the back of the garment eXteriorly and where entering the slits I the belt passes beneath vertical straps which are attached to the garment at intervals. These straps are indicated at S, and their function being to produce an adjustable connection between the garment and belt where applied.

The letters'D indicate buttons attached to the garment between the straps, and the letter 7 5 N designates longitudinal slits made in the belt for the passage of the buttons and the adjustment of the garment on the belt at those points. The letters M designate a front staying-piece attached to the garment at the front on each side of the opening and parallel with the straps.

worn, the skirt or pantaloons button on at D," to the said garment,with the belt buckled and 8 5 secured at the front beneath-the latter, soas to have a proper girth tension upon the hips of the wearer. Thus secured, the belt by means of the straps S and slits N supports and sustains the weight of the attached lower garments, leaving all that part of the shirtwaist above the belt freefrom tension or strain. The purpose of the straps S being merely to furnish an adj ustable connection between the belt and garment, if desired the straps may be omitted and parallel vertical slits made in the garment at proper distance apart, and the belt be passed through one of the slits underneath the garment, and through the other out from underneath the latter, and a series of When the Shirt-Waist is thus made and ceases tion as the straps.

, being merely to connect the ends of the belt,

slits thus made will perform the same func- The purpose of the buckle attached exteriorly to the back of said garment, vertical straps on the exterior of the latter for the passage beneath them of said belt, slits in the said garment at each side of the front opening therein for the inward passage of the belt ends, a buckle to connect the latter, buttoning attachments on the garment between said straps for attaching a skirt or pantaloons thereto, and horizontal slits made in the belt opposite said buttoning attachments, as and for the purposes herein set forth.

WM. H. GALLUP. LEE CHURCHILL. Witnessesz' OHARLEs S. BRINTNALL, FREDERICK F. BUELL. 

